skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is really cool, congrats on shipping. I've had a hard time finding reliable plant information as well, especially since many sites focus only on indoor plants while others focus only on those you grow outside in a garden, etc. It's nice to be able to search for plants I have inside as well as outside.

Having a filter for the genus is a great idea too!

The search feels a little slow, and it's somewhat finicky: if I type in "ficus ginseng" I don't see a result, apparently because the title is "Ficus 'Ginseng'" so the single quotes are needed.

But I can see myself using this site! Nice work!
I used to live in Covent Garden many years ago.

I had a neighbour who constantly, vociferously, and once or twice mildly violently, complained about noise. I had no idea why he chose to live there.

I am not sure they are looking for windfall gains. I think a mixture of stupidity and wanting to have everything ("I want to live in a lively city centre with lots of places to go out to in the evening that is quiet when i want to sleep").
What's the goal here? As a Nix[OS] user for a couple years now, the underlying Nix impl is not really on my radar for personal problems i have with Nix. It's entirely about the language and (lack of) language-tooling.

I write typed systems on purpose during my day/hobby programming, and dynamic untyped experiences are just no fun for me personally. Nickel is far more interesting to me on my checklist of UX issues.

Kinda surprises me to see larger rewrites of various Nix systems that i've not had issue with. Am i missing something?
Part of the reason maybe that many of these cycle lanes are not fit for purpose. There are places in the UK where cycling became popular for the simple reason that the layout was already bike friendly.
This craze of adding a bike lane, regardless of local conditions has, indeed, been a total failure.
Have to protect those pesky application developers from knowing the time so they can write correct software.

It makes sense for a web browser. Not for something like Swift.
Note that the YT recommender has changed a lot since then.
Apple Privacy Manifests – privacy theatre?
This is really nice, great idea. I am going to make a suggestion which I hope is helpful - I don't mean to be critical of this nice project.

After going through the MDP example, I have one comment on the way you introduce the non-deterministic transition function. In your example the non-determinism comes from the agent making "mistakes", it can mistakenly go left or right when trying to go up or down:

1) You could introduce the mistakes more clearly as it isn't really explained the agent makes mistakes in the text, and so the comment about mistakes in the transition() function is initally a bit confusing.

2) I think the way this introduces non-determinism could be more didactic if the non-determinism came from the environment, not the agent? For example the agent might be moving on a rough surface and moving its tracks/limbs/whatever might not always produce the intended outcome. As you present it the transition is a function from an action to a random action to a random state, and the definition is just a function from an action to a random state.
Gen Z job applicants know their CV is going straight into the bin anyway. Sounds like they're saving time.
There is far more enterprise software than most people realise, everybody complaining about Jira, Salesforce, SAP. It gets much worse once you go to special-purpose/domain-specific enterprise software.
Who gets to decide that RT is not interested in the truth? Traditionally, liberal democracy has held that it's not safe for the government to make that decision.
It’s that crazy… I’m a masters degree student who has used nicotine in the form of low-dose patches and oral pouches as a cognitive enhancer for many years. Never felt compelled to use nicotine outside of focused work at the library and I also maintain a high level of cardiovascular fitness.
Based on the recent decision by the DEA to move marijuana from schedule 1 to schedule 3, that could be changing (insofar as legalization goes anyways)
Humans have those exact same constraints. For the longest time we could only speculate what the dark side of the moon looked like, for instance.

Yes, LLMs are constrained in what output they can generate based on their training data. Just as we humans are constrained in the output we can generate. When we talk about things we don't understand we speak gibberish, just like LLMs.
"Here is one like that: ~500k individuals, vaping has an odds ratio of 1.33 (95% CI = 1.14–1.56) for heart attacks compared to non-smoker/non-vapers."

Are vapers more likely to get a heart attack or are people with a stressful life with a higher risk of a heart attack more likely to be vapers?

Sorry. Could not resist.
Cool. Thanks for the explanation.

Been quite a while since I've seen the movie.
Still hilarious how apple goes about their "system security".

Instead of actually implementing security in the kernel they just kinda prevent you from distributing an app that may call that functionality. Because that way they can still let their buddies abuse it without appearing too biased (by e.g. having a whitelist on the device).

This technical failing probably, partially, explains why they are so against allowing sideloading. That, and they're scared of losing their cash cow of course.
Just use clock_gettime with whatever clock you want. There’s also a np (non-POSIX) suffixed variant that returns the timestamp in nanoseconds.
Well, they do say it's a fork in the About and FAQ pages. I'm guessing the front page's aim is to be broader, more newbie-friendly, more forward-looking, etc.

> Oh cool, I had "rewrite in Rust" on my bingo card

You may also be curious about tvix, which is a greenfield version in Rust, not a fork (but still pretty feature-incomplete, iiuc).
If I was a CEO with a VP who wrote something this realistic and honest, my response would be to pressure the rest of my execs to give me that same level of quality information. Breath of fresh air!
Aside from the cost of physically digging a hole, moving the spoil, pouring concrete, placing temporary barriers around the works and so on.
It's hard to read or watch Al Jazeera's reporting on this matter without feeling utterly disgusted at how a certain military is treating a civilian population (be it in Gaza or the West Bank). They make the Israelis and the IDF look like absolute monsters.
Thanks, I take the ad-hoc theory back!
Yes, but they cost much more than now so it was very common to have a sewing machine in every house and use it. If you're 30 and have a sewing machine at home now, chances are that you're a cosplayer.
It may not be difficult, but it's an additional layer of requirement. Defense in depth baby!
Very interesting. Do you mind sharing a link to the government website you refer to?
> Would probably be seen by governments as anti competitive and abusing their monopoly position.

What monopoly position? There are dozens of game stores available on all the platforms Steam supports with nothing restricting users from installing and using however many of them they want. Outside of Valve's own Steam Deck hardware users had to go out of their way to install Steam in the first place. Even there the installation of third party launchers is not just supported but encouraged.

Some of the world's most popular games are not even available on Steam.
All the other methods "above" mach_absolute_time are still allowed though, including clock_gettime_nsec_np that's only ~2x slower than mach_absolute_time. While the Swift clock is ~40x slower than mach_absolute_time. I don't see how intentional slowdown for fingerprinting protection can be the cause.
Translating Scientific Papers for the Public
Most primary hydro sites are gone. Pumped hydro can work in a much wider variety of places, including in deserts.

https://www.whitepinepumpedstorage.com/
Ah, yes you are right about that. The search sucks right now. An even bigger issue is that search only matches in the scientific name but most people are entering common names. Yours is the first user feedback to mention it though so thank you for sharing! I will make it a higher priority to fix.
Oh sorry, I didn't phrase that well. I'm not in that position but do think I understand when people are stuck by that fear.

Personally I work part time on software projects and have a small farm/homestead. I usually don't know what day of the week it is and have the freedom to take each morning yo decide how I want to spend my day. I wish everyone could experience that freedom, even if they find they don't like it.
A fourteen-day free trial ain’t gonna cut it
> Imagine a company being told today that they now have to stop advertising on billboards, can't advertise to kids, and have to pay a fifth of a trillion dollars over 25 years for the harms they caused to Medicaid. Can't, can you?

That's what's happening to Juul right now. Juul e-cigarettes came out in 2015; 2018 had the first consent decree to not advertise anywhere kids might see the advertisements; by 2021, we had the first attempt to ban Juul from selling products in the US, period (something which never happened with cigarettes!). The current crop of lawsuits isn't at $200 billion, though, only a few billion. But for a product segment that existed for less than a decade, that's a pretty steep penalty.
In addition to mytailorisrich's comment, this is a vacuous description of Sweden's economy because many of its new billionaires are operating in a global technology and finance economy that wouldn't exist without US capitalism. If a Swedish company lists their IPO on the New York Stock Exchange and the founder becomes a billionaire, they became a billionaire via the American economy, not solely the Swedish one.

I suspect there is effectively a "negative externality" of income inequality, where Swedish residents can enjoy America's horrible shareholder-first corporate culture, without directly screwing over the Swedish poor. To be clear I am not trying to say that the Swedish are exploiting the US[1] and the Stockholm exchange does make plenty of billionaires (Ericsson is listed there). But you can't consider, say, Spotify to be a Swedish success story in isolation.

[1] In the precise same sense that most US corporations are not "exploiting" Delaware.
I've made simple tool to make invocation traces in java. I had to fix errors in BIG project where sometimes invocation goes throught several layers (gui -> local coordinator -> remote coordinator -> remote server and result back again through another round of functions back to gui) and some of the interactions are configurable at runtime. So I've made java agent which can install logger in methods and classes specified by regex (like "com\.company\.project\.class\.method\(.+"), which then logs all calls along with arguments. VERY usable for checking which path was actually taken for invalid executions. Not in releasable state yet, but I will someday release it.
I really hope this is sarcastic.

Is a developer that takes 2,000 LoC to fix an issue that another takes 200 to fix 10x more productive, because I'm pretty sure it's the opposite?

Productivity has to include "efficiency" somewhere in it, and LoC doesn't capture efficiency at all.
I think that most people would argue that past censorship by the US was a violation of democratic principles.
I don't recall exactly my issues, but definitely found some things that didn't work this way.

It's also a pain to set things up this way (compared to loopback or hijack).
Nitpick: It's Goodhart (without the “e”).
Lane cake (Alabama) is a seriously good dessert.
I have personally obtained two Starlink dishes in Ukraine. One I preordered more than a year before the war, which was fast tracked by SpaceX shortly after the war started. This was a lifesaver in the early days when power outages took down landline and mobile internet. I paid the $599 for this one.

I then ordered a second one later in 2022, thinking it will be years away. It was ready to ship in a month or so and spacex offered to ship it with no additional charge (just the $99 deposit I paid). I accepted this generous offer and am grateful to SpaceX for their help.

So technically it’s correct that SpaceX did not provide either of these dishes for free. I also paid the monthly service which is discounted compared to US rates but not free. However it’s also correct to say that SpaceX was generous in making Starlink available and gave at least one dish away for nominal cost in the early days. I’m sure I’m not the only one who benefited from this.

Starlinks are used a lot on the front. Of course they get captured by Russian forces sometimes.
Not sure, but afaik, one of the first big changes was to use Meson for building, instead of Dolstra's homegrown build system.

Apparently, the switch to Meson was approved, and coded, ages ago, but Dolstra kept dragging his heels on it.
Ive tried making this exact product using all of these services, including using github repo koi is based on.

They all use like 50% of my cpu to get real time. I was able to get actual low latency with koi, but still massive cpu usage. And theres no community of models for it either.

Perhaps someone who really knows what theyre doing could optimize these open source models but its not me
Then it becomes the challenger scenario. Various pieces are failing but the whole mission succeeds so everyone ignores the known risks because management is interested in their return on investment. That works right up until the rocket explodes and suddenly there are lots of external people asking serious questions. Boeing is going through the same thing having optimised for ROI as well and its planes are now falling apart on a daily basis.

Who always gets in trouble for this? More often than not the developers and operators who in a high pressure environment optimised what they were told to optimise and gamed the metrics a little so they weren't fired or held back in their careers.
same reason why Terraform AWS Provider is better documentation than AWS documentation

https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/aws/latest...

If I can't find the answer to what I need there I usually resort to LLMs, they are surprisingly good and fetching the info you need out of these massive documentations. The failure rate is quite high though so a lot of trial and error required, but the LLM at least gives you some hints to where to look for it.
Show HN: Auto Gmail – AI agent that responds to your emails like you would
For people who don't want to sign-up, here is a 2m demo: https://www.loom.com/share/2611055d68cc4348982ccf687825f014
> I don't think the invasion of Iraq was a good thing or acceptable.

But it was. Nothing happened to anyone, no courts, trials, no jail time for any of the politicians, no nothing. So we, as a "western society" (or whatever you might call us) deem such invasions acceptable. Not just that, but we conduct new ones after that. So yeah, if you do something, officially, with documentation, public money, public employees, and nothing happens, how is it not acceptable?

I mean... if it's not acceptable, why did WE do it then? Assuming you're old enough, you literally financed people getting killed there with your taxes.

> But you very clearly seem to think the invasion and genocide in Ukraine is acceptable.

In the same way as iraq was. But we're not the ones attacking now, and we're bothered by that, so we're using even more money to get more people killed in this war.

I have a toilet, and my taxes are going to ukraine to prolong this war, as they went to helping the occupiers of iraq, and are still going to syria (we have soldiers there too). We had to run away from afghanistan a few years ago though... it just cost us and our 'friends' a trillion to replace the taliban with the taliban there, and kill a lot of locals. Apparently, that's acceptable too, since noone is in jail for that war.
Those signs indicate 20km/h! I've never seen a speed limit sign in the united states under 25mph.
Pumped hydro consumes much less water than evaporative cooling of a thermal power plant with the same energy throughput. Pumped hydro doesn't have to be on an existing watercourse, so it doesn't cause the environmental issues that come along with that.
I recommend watching this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1LnYLp-2qg
> No rational person should think those citizens were at fault.

Did you read some sort of an impressive proof for this fact prior to epistemically & cognitively (consciously &/or subconsciously) upgrading it to Objectively True? Because for something to be labeled as True in a strict system of logic, it requires a proof.

Note also that Consensus Belief of Truth is not identical to Proven Truth, even though it typically appears that way due to our cultural conditioning.
I could envisage cmake evolving towards meson by cleaning up it's complete weird syntax, but it suffers a little bit from something like Conway's Law: it's as convoluted as C++ because it deals with C++, and Hyrum's Law: again, because of C++, it has weird edge cases that people already depend on so it has to be backwards compatible for a long time.

I guess I'm saying cmake is the "build" system you'd expect for C++.

> After that the meson design clicked and boy howdy the amount of mental energy I put into my build systems has gone down comfortably close to zero. I adore meson.

I'm only a week or so into it, and it's been ridiculously easy to get along with so far.
Agreed with “just generate a web page on the backend”. But if the webapp is sufficiently complex (all websites I have been paid to work on have been), you need a component based framework like React to make the creation of the page manageable
I use FreeOTP for iOS.

It has two security levels: normal-level security codes will unlock when the phone is unlocked, high-level security codes require a separate unlock to get the code. The former back up to iCloud (E2E encrypted), the latter don't back up.
That's sort of what Mercedes does, with their C-class cars. I understand that European cabs are yet another class, that is not available, on this side of the pond.

The other day, I was stopped behind a brand new Tesla Model S. Looked like about a $90,000 USD trim package.

The trunk was out of square.

Not that much, but noticeable.

I don't think the cheapest Mercedes would ever go out the door, with that kind of flaw. It's a matter of a couple of tweaks with an Allen wrench, to fix.
Actually i'm asserting precisely that misinformation deals in lying about trivially disprovable statements about the universe. If "reality" is open to interpretation i'm dealing with a bad-faith actor and I'm not going to waste my time.

That said, you don't have to hunt very far on vermont to find an ass flapping in the wind on some conservative christian channel.
He mentions this in the article to say that it’s a “fatal flaw” that might cause this methodology to not work in your org. However, he also fatalistically assumes that skipping muda is a failure case, rather than just a realistic response to balancing short vs long term considerations.

I suggest above that muda should either 1) be worked on, or 2) the fact that it’s being deferred should be explicitly captured. And, since there are competing interests (leadership is accountable to net productivity while ICs are not) the deferral capture needs to be anonymous to prevent top-down pressure in the direction of ignoring tech debt accumulation.
On building with AI
Protecting people from cars could be done by enforcing existing laws regarding unsafe driving habits and increasing the penalties to a point where the worst drivers are simply priced out of the equation.
I'm stoked for "mosaic tiling":

> a new window management mode which combines the best parts of tiling and floating
https://blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2023/07/26/rethinking-windo...
If your idea solves any pain-point that some market has, then chances are someone else has thought of it. This is especially true in the consumer space, where you don't need deep industry knowledge to come up with an idea.

But very few people actually execute on ideas that they have. And even fewer successfully execute. This is why I like the advice from the book "The Lean Startup": if you think an idea is valuable, call up a product manager at the biggest player in the space and try to get them to steal your idea from you... the short answer is that they won't, because any successful company is flooded with good ideas and they have to be picky about which ones they pursue [1].

That said, people vastly underestimate the size of the market for many things and they assume that some competitor might keep them from taking off. Think of the tire market: how many people can give a good explanation of the difference between Michelin and Goodyear? Maybe 1% of people? Yet, but companies are huge. Now go to almost any other market (save for a few with network effects) and you'll find at least several competitors in the space. And if no one is competing in a space, sometimes that's a bad sign, not a good one if you are considering it.

[1] There are some ideas that are obvious, and they might already be pursuing, such as using LLMs to automate some aspect of customer service. That doesn't count as a stolen idea. Also, don't take this to the extreme. Obviously some ideas are valuable, but they tend to be things that require very deep expertise.
I wonder what happens if the person you regularly email also has this installed.
Good idea!! I’ll admit I came at this having much more experience with Houseplants than gardening, but I definitely want it to serve many communities. Thanks for the suggestion! Is that basically the same thing as “zone?” I think that should be doable - I will look into it! Would love to know any other features that would be valuable from the gardening perspective.
I think it is. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40273790

Submarines and Navy ships have similar dry air.
How long did it take you to move from v1 to v2 to v3?

Cool site!
Those are for dams on rivers. PHES doesn't have to be on rivers.
Space stations need spin gravity for long duration use.

As far as living on other planets goes: there is gravity. What we don't know is how much gravity we need. We could answer this with a space station with spin gravity by trying different rotational velocities and monitoring the health effects.

The Moon has about 1/6 Earth gravity. Is that enough? We don't know. Mars has a little over 1/3.

Long duration space flight probably needs spin gravity too. There are two ways to do it. One is a torus shaped spacecraft. The other is two spacecraft and a tether where once they insert themselves into their cruise transfer orbit they link, extend the tether, and start orbiting each other in a spin configuration. People could go between the ships if necessary by following the tether, though this would probably only be done when strictly necessary due to the risks.

There's a calculator online for spin gravity based on what we currently know about human tolerance for the Coriolis effect:

https://www.artificial-gravity.com/sw/SpinCalc/

It's not too bad. There are various workable sweet spots. Playing around I find one at 20 meter radius and 0.66g (2/3) gravity. It looks like you can't get much smaller than 15 meters diameter without ill effects, but we actually don't know. We need to try this to see what humans can actually adjust to.

The simplest test short of a centrifugal station would be to put two capsules or Starships in orbit and tether them and experiment with different tether lengths and rotational velocities.

Edit: actually there's a third way to do gravity on long duration flights. If you watched/read The Expanse you saw it. Accelerate to the midpoint, flip, decelerate to the destination. Unfortunately that requires insane physicsts' nightmare propulsion systems like the fusion engines in The Expanse that we do not have and won't have for the foreseeable future unless there are some crazy fusion breakthroughs.